Friday Links | May 9, 2014

Editor’s note: Anneke is taking a break from the Friday Links at the moment because she has just given birth to her third child. We wish her and her family all the best, and I apologise that the links will not be nearly as extensive in Anneke’s absence!

Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, outside the defense headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

An Al-Monitor report on atheism in Egypt found that women were unwilling to be interviewed, and suggests that this reflects the potential for harsher consequences for women who identify publicly as atheists.

Women in southern Thailand are experiencing increasing hardships, including physical and mental health problems as well as a lack of access to employment and social services, because of fighting between the government and Muslim separatist groups.

A PolicyMic piece argues that activism about LGBT issues in response to Brunei’s recently-introduced “sharia” criminal code should not draw attention away from the code’s serious implications for women.